Monday, 26 April 2010

Weekend in Devon and a Weymouth Freestyle session

Me, Stef and a few other guys from Cardiff drove down to Devon for the weekend to see the opening of 'Boylos' watersports shop in Colyton. Great weekend, shop looks amazing and we had a bbq and drinks all day in the sun! The next day we went to a 'secret' beach and played fetch with Archie, Murray's labrador. Me and Stef drove through Weymouth to meet a few friends on the way back and discovered it was reasonably windy (on the verge of planing freestyle), and had a good unexpected session as the wind picked up! A couple of photos shown, one of Al Bentley going clew first for something and the other Boylos shop. None of me as I was the one taking the photos!

About Me

I started windsurfing when I was 16 on family watersports holidays once a year. I got properly hooked on my gap year in the British Army in 2005, competing and training in Egypt, Holland and the UK. During this year I saved some money for my own kit and in 2006 started studying aerospace engineering at Southampton University, joining the windsurf club. Sailing around the South coast with lots of friends provided lots of competition, and competing all around the country against other Universities in the Student Windsurf Association events gave me an appetite for competing. For the last couple of years at University I competed in the UK wave circuit, travelling to Wales, Ireland and Scotland. In 2010 after University I secured a job with a big engineering firm, Babcock, but managed to get a deferred entry and sailed in Brazil, Maui and the Canaries, competing in my first PWA event in Gran Canaria. Now I live and work in Plymouth in the UK and sail and surf as much as possible around my job.